Safety, efficacy, and 30-day follow-up of electrocautery biopsy tract closure: retrospective multicenter study.

The most common indications included liver mass (38; 31.7%), medical liver disease (33; 27.5%), and medical renal disease (25; 20.8%).

Antithrombotic medications (21; 17.5%) were held per Society of Interventional Radiology guidelines.

Ultrasound- (52.5%) or CT-guided (47.5%) procedures were completed in 17 ± 8 minutes with outpatients discharged 2.8 + 1.2 hours post-procedure.

There were no instances of significant hemoglobin drop (>1.5 g/dL) in the 65-patient subgroup and no immediate or delayed procedure-related deaths; five patients expired in hospice.